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[email protected]. “I’m Happy Just to Dance to the Best Song Ever”: A Comparative Musical Analysis of The Beatles and One Direction Rachel Jones MUSC 393 Professor Don Meyer 1 “I’m Happy Just to Dance to the Best Song Ever”: A Comparative Musical Analysis of The Beatles and One Direction Introduction On the 26th of July, 2010, the bootcamp portion of the seventh series of The X Factor was drawing to a close. 108 acts remained in the running, but 72 of these acts had to be eliminated leading into the next stage of the competition. Among the group of solo artists who did not make the cut were five boys, all of whom were between the ages of 16 and 18: Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson.